bugger

Plural: buggers

Noun

someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
A heretic.
Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
A situation that is aggravating or causes dismay; a pain.
Someone viewed with affection; a chap.
A damn, anything at all.
Someone who is very fond of something
A whippersnapper, a tyke.
One who sets a bug (surveillance device); one who bugs.

Verb

Verb Forms: buggered, buggering, buggers

To damn or vex; often used as an expletive.
practice anal sex upon
To have anal sex with, sodomize.
To break or ruin.
Expressing contemptuous dismissal of the grammatical object.

Intj

An expression of annoyance or displeasure.

Examples

Bugger, I've missed the bus.
He muttered "BUGGER!" when he realized he missed a bingo opportunity.
He's a silly bugger for losing his keys.
How are you, you old bugger?
I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.
I'm a bugger for Welsh cakes.
My computer's being a bit of a bugger.
Oh, bugger this! I'm going out for a beer instead.
So you're stuck out in the woop-woop and the next train back is Thursday next week. Well, that's a bit of a bugger.
The British Sexual Offences Act of 1967 is a buggers’ charter.
The bugger’s given me the wrong change.
This computer is buggered! Oh no! I've buggered it up.
What is that little bugger up to now?

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English bougre (“heretic”), from Old French bougre, from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgar”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ, “Bulgarian”), used in designation of heretics (especially the Bogomils, who arose around the 10th century AD in the First Bulgarian Empire), to whom various sexual practices such as anal sex were ascribed. Doublet of Bulgar.

Synonyms

sod, sodomise, sodomist, sodomite, sodomize, bummer, damn, male homosexual and Thesaurus:fudge packer, rats, whoops

Scrabble Score: 10

bugger: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bugger: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bugger: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

bugger: valid Words With Friends Word